Mary Hunt
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Student Debt: What a Pain!Dear Mary: Our daughter graduated from college with more than $100,000 in student loans. Her first job did not pay enough for her to begin repaying the loans. The only loan that we co-signed is more than $600 a month. We did not know that it was in default until she was several thousand dollars behind. This came at us after a home remodel and a wedding. We are not prepared to pay this loan, and we ...
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Marilynn Preston
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Finally! A Pole You Can Believe InI was waiting in the ticket line for "Brideshead Revisited" the other day — making time to see great movies is part of a healthy lifestyle — when I spotted evidence of a wonderful fitness trend I want to encourage: regular people, out walking, in city streets, using hiking poles.
In this case it was a man and woman — mid-40's, casually dressed, L.L. Beanish — and ...
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Sharon Mosley
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Picking Berries: Powerful Antioxidants for your WardrobeThey're ripe for the picking. This fall, juicy berry colors drip with delicious richness that will delight the fashion senses. From strawberry-red satin sheaths to raspberry-pink pumps to plump blueberry bracelets, the colors of the stylish season conjure up a fruitful bounty of nature's own delights — served as powerful antioxidants for your wardrobe.
Here's how to juice up your fall shoppi ...
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Terry Savage
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Knowing when to bailWhen should you sell? That's the most difficult question for a buy-and-hold investor to answer. It's so much easier to think about buying stocks, which only requires a basic optimism that future growth will create wealth. Who wants to think about selling — a decision that is far down the road?
Traders, on the other hand, are always thinking about when "enough is enough." They're wi ...
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Russ Scott
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Is Regulated Online Poker in the Cards For U.S.?The biggest story in poker last week actually happened two months ago. The fallout will last much longer than that.
ESPN's telecast Aug. 19 of the World Series $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. (mixed games) tournament highlighted the controversial final-table behavior of popular pro and eventual winner Scotty Nguyen.
The 1998 world champion claimed his fifth WSOP gold bracelet that night in late June and hoiste ...
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Pat Logan
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Paint Restores Grungy GuttersDear Pat: I like the way vinyl sheet flooring looks in a kitchen. But in my friend's home, it cracked and got dull in less than a year. If I have it installed in my kitchen, how can I avoid these problems? — Jean B.
Dear Jean: Vinyl sheet flooring is attractive and generally very durable. One of its most common uses is in commercial buildings that receive a lot of foot traffic, and where it ...
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Movie Reviewers
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Stiller-Downey Movie a Bungle in the Jungle"Death Race" is one of those movies where the title truly says it all. Not like "Kung Fu Panda," for example, where the film is about a panda that learns kung fu, but ends up finding himself and gaining self-confidence.
No, "Death Race" is literally 89 minutes of racing and fighting that both add up to a death toll you wouldn't believe.
The film, based on 1975's " ...
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Rob Kyff
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Chinese Words Spin with Body EnglishMr. Chairman . . . The great State of English, land of strong verbs, superlative adjectives and perfect tenses, proudly casts its 26 letters . . . er, votes for the next president of the United States — Rob Kyff.
Sorry, folks. Ain't gonna happen. Let's console ourselves by exploring some lingo associated with this summer's political conventions.
Alas, this year's confabs will produce no &quo ...
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Malcolm Berko
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U.S. Economy Reaping What the Banks Have SownDear Mr. Berko: I heard about this company called L-3 Communications that will be selling thousands of devices called ProVision scanners. This scanner takes an X-ray of your body at an airport or baseball game and the viewer can immediately tell if you are carrying a gun, knife or explosives. It only takes seconds, which certainly beats the long lines and pat-downs at the airport. What do you kno ...
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Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith